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Pandit Dayashankar Naseem

پنڈت دیا شنکر نسیم

Pandit Dayashankar Naseem in the original Urdu with a facing English translation. The first two chapters of each work are free with ads; Members and Patrons can read the full work without ads. Works can also be read in Roman Urdu and Hindi script.

Life1811–1845

Pandit Dayashankar Kaul, who wrote as Naseem, was a Kashmiri Pandit of Lucknow and a pupil of the poet Atish. He died young, in his thirties.

He is known for one work, Gulzar-e-Naseem, a masnavi retelling the tale of Gul-e-Bakavali in compact, ornamented verse. It is one of the classic narrative poems of Urdu and was long a set text.

Works by Pandit Dayashankar Naseem